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You know you're doing something right when there's an evil laugh involved!

Thanks, dude! Swing through whenever... we're always open. I got off from work a little early so I came home to get the transfer case shifter done. Probably just put a boot over everything to jazz it up some. ... and I desperately need to clean up the carpet. :doh:

Robyn: "What would you like to do this year for our anniversary?" :dunno: Ben: "How about a road trip to Duluth?" . :MJ 1: . Robyn: "Yeah! Sounds like fun! We could cruise up to the lighthouse and hit up the museums and find the local restaurants..." :) Ben: "Yup... we could do all that stuff... maybe stop in at Archer's..." :idea: Robyn: "What was that?" :bs: Ben: "I said that sounds great!... and I could work in a stop at Archer's..." :roll: Robyn: :shake: Ben: :crossfingers: Robyn: :rant: Ben: :peek: Robyn: "Fine... but only if we don't end up leaving with some old truck part!" :thwak: She's very supportive!... and understanding. :thumbsup:

It was a long night thinking about putting that rusty truck out to pasture. Well... it's time to move on and keep going. Had a big day getting the floor taken care of. Pretty textbook repair in the left foot well. Then came a nice, heavy couple coats of bedliner. I was having so much fun I decided to polish off the can of bedliner on the rear frame. I started on the shift linkage for the transfer case also. All I have is the shifter itself so I'm simplifying everything and just making up my own linkage. More on that later.

Did they let you keep it?!

It was a sad day. :( I've never had to scrap a Comanche before, but after digging into this poor truck I quickly found that this was really the best thing for it. I have a tow bar for my VWs that I made up an adapter to dispose of the truck. My wife is ecstatic that I have a convenient way of pulling home more trucks. :shake: Scrap day... Like I said, this thing was bad. Time to go. :cry: The end. Can't be said enough how sad it is to thin the herd. This being done, it leaves my attention on getting the donor on the road. ... and then there were three... and a half.

I like that... kind of like some sort of knighthood. I'd wear my suit of rust with pride!

Can anybody else watch this and oddly see themselves? I've been on a big TED kick lately to where that's what I do for hours at a time. It's like YouTube where one thing leads to another... and another... and another... and so on. :nuts:

http://minneapolis.craigslist.org/dak/cto/3922221707.html 87 jeep comamche - $1000 (cannon falls) I have a 87 jeep comanche for sale. The truck is ruff on the inside and fair on the outside. It has tje bigger 4.0 and I have removed the box. Was gonna make into a trail truck bit don't have the time. It does need a fuel tank and pump. It does run and will need tires. It also comes with a 98 ford explore rear end . If u have any questions feel free to contact me. Thank you 507-589-8055. Really surprised with this truck. It obviously needs rockers but the box sides really don't look all that bad... if you can see past the dents anyway. That bright yellow might be hiding a bit though. Still, I'd call at least out of curiosity if I was on the market.

Totally diggin' the topper! :rock on:

I love that gasket. I've done a couple of them recently and every time I go in to get a gasket I have to argue with the parts store jockey that I do indeed want to spend $40 on a gasket instead of $10 for the cork. :shake: Never had any issues with leaking and they're reusable. :thumbsup:

Sorry to hear that, Pete. Any kind of strict diet is no fun at all. :( Good luck with everything. :thumbsup:

... and now it moves!!! I should probably make it stop too. :idea: Working on removing the rest of the parts from the '91 now. No sense in having two dumpy looking trucks kickin' around the yard and dropping the resale value of the neighborhood!

Couldn't have been a rust issue! I just swapped the column from my '91 over and I probably had that same six hours in swapping over the column and the entire dash and wiring. :shake:

http://minneapolis.craigslist.org/ank/cto/3905715962.html 1990 Jeep Comanche pickup set up for trail riding. Not street legal. Four link rear withcoils, limiters straps and a Lincoln locker . 31-1050 swampers .with tubes front lock rite locker and 6 1/2 lift springs. New gas tank in box, lots of character marks from dresser. Lots of fun . Cash only. :( ... poor little fella.

... or at least part of it, anyway. Thanks Pete!

Actually, Alexandria is sort of a smaller show as far as space. Their website shows that there were almost 300 cars in a space that usually has half that. We showed up way after the gates opened and getting my little car in was a squeeze in some spots! Saving the MJ another show at the end of August. Bringing the camper too.

It's about that time of year around my part of MN where it seems like there's a car show every other weekend or so. Today, it was Alexandria. It's usually a smaller show, but they had a record amount of cars in attendance this year! Planning on showing a vehicle at the next few shows. Didn't get a whole lot of pictures, but I did manage to get some good ones on the way home.

Gave this truck another couple days of attention this weekend. Wiring from the firewall forward is all done now along with the wiring all the way back to the taillight harness. No real surprises. Had to drill a few holes, but otherwise everything just dropped in where it was supposed to. Everything pretty much just looks like an opposite of what it did a week ago. ... and a video. :banana:

This could be opening up a can of worms as there's been plenty of conversations... and arguments... over the differences of strength between DOM (drawn over mandrel) and HREW (hot rolled electric welded) tubing. While they both start life almost identical that each type starts off as a sheet, then is cut, rolled and welded back together as a tube that's where the similarities stop. The DOM starts off slightly larger in size so it can be finished by being squeezed through a die. This is a cold process so it will always be precisely the size it is required to be both inside and outside diameter. As far as actual strength, DOM is going to be almost twice the tensile strength when compared to HREW. Again, this is due to the cold process that the tubing is finished in. Then there's the applications. If you were to be building a competition rock buggy that would be taking some serious drop offs and side impacts, then one should really us DOM. For the type of offroading that most do, I'd say that HREW would be plenty strong especially if you have some good tow points that tie into the frame. DOM will be much harder to bend also. I've made bumpers out of DOM when specifically asked to do so. Otherwise, I always use HREW for bumper applications.

I know the feeling too. :D